„Because I don‘t like him, I‘ll do it,“ said Depardieu to Swiss Radio Television (RTS). Having said that, the actor then went to town on both Strauss-Kahn and also almost everybody in France. „I think he’s a little like all of the French, a bit arrogant. I don‘t like the French very much…He’s very French, arrogant and smug, so he’s playable.“

He went on to add that it wasn‘t Strauss-Kahn’s compulsions that bothered him, but „the way he walks around with his hand in his pocket,“ which, taken idiomatically, goes back to arrogance.

„Every time I ask Sarko to do something, he has responded straight away. When I had problems with one of my foreign businesses, he did everything he could to solve the problem straight away. When I call him, he calls me back within a quarter of an hour. He’s the president of the republic, I‘m just an actor, and he rings me straight away. He’s extraordinary.

Where cancer is concerned, it’s safe to say there’s no such thing as good timing. But having a life-threatening disease in your 20s carries a special set of psychological and social challenges. It defies our very definition of what ought to be. Youth and health are supposed to be synonymous. If only I could sue my body for breach of contract with the natural order of things.

Cancer has forced me to pause my life at a time when my peers are just beginning theirs. For my friends, most of them young adults in their 20s, this is an exciting time as they look forward to starting new jobs, traveling the world, going to parties, dating and finding love, and all the rest of the small and big milestones that are part of early adulthood.

Like my peers, I have yet to fully define who I want to become. But as a young cancer patient, it’s difficult to see ahead when I’m fighting for my life. I don’t know what the future holds. I just know I want to be there.